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Malcolm Gunn is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and has over 50 years of experience in advising on all aspects of UK tax, although he has a particular interest in capital taxes. For 16 years, he was an editor of the weekly magazine Taxation. In 2004, he left the magazine to concentrate on consultancy and advisory work.

Malcolm Gunn continues to contribute frequently to technical publications on UK tax, including a chapter each year in Tolley's Tax Planning on Relevant Property Trusts. He is the current author of Tolley's Inheritance Tax and joint author with Julie Butler of Stanley's UK Taxation of Farmers & Landowners. He is also general editor of Foster's Inheritance Tax, and a consultant with Butler and Co chartered accountants.

Malcolm Gunn was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award in the LexisNexis 2004 Tax Awards and is a member of the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

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Florentina Susnea is a PKF Finconta partner, with over 26 years of experience in the tax field, collaborating with a large number of clients in various fields of activity.

Her professional experience includes: statutory audit and IFRS, tax consulting, tax residency issues, financial and tax restructuring, documentation and Transfer Pricing policies, mergers and divisions, judicial, accounting and tax expertise, procurement due diligence.

She collaborates with other members of PKF International Limited companies to provide a more holistic approach to advising on cross-border customer taxation.

She is an accredited member of the following professional organizations: Chamber of Fiscal Consultants, Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania, Chamber of Experts and Certified Accountants of Romania.

She also has a PhD in economics and has attended numerous national and international courses in the field of taxation.

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Duncan has nearly 30 years experience in corporate tax, working for a number of Big 4 firms and in the UK, Guernsey and The Netherlands.  He has always had a particular interest in international tax issues.

ATT, CTA and ADIT qualified, he has been a full-time tax lecturer since 2007 and joined Tolley in 2016 after spending nine years at EY in their Corporate Tax Training department.  Whilst at EY he was the lead tutor on international tax and successfully completed his ADIT qualification.

He is an engaging lecturer and a firm believer that ADIT represents a hugely valuable qualification in a globalised world.

He teaches ATT, CTA and ADIT including experience of teaching ADIT in Cyprus.

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Ventsislav (Venzi) Vassilev is the Senior Strategist and founder of PKF Bulgaria and has a strong background and experience in the accountancy and tax consultancy sector. Mr Vassilev is a graduate of the University of Bristol in the UK in Economics and Accounting and started his career with Arthur Andersen & Co in the early 90s. Then in 1995 he founded Rex Consulting - a fast growing group of consultancy companies in Bulgaria which in 2014  joined the network of PKF International.

Venzi Vassilev has extensive experience in consulting and assisting foreign investors in Bulgaria. He leads a team of multilingual professional accountants, lawyers, financiers, business experts and administrative assistants. Under his leadership the team has created a company culture of a welcoming and informal atmosphere which is combined with a strong commitment to the client's business.

Currently PKF Bulgaria and the Rex Consulting group of companies have four offices in Bulgaria (Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna and Bansko); all of the offices are registered as separate entities. Rex Consulting Ltd also has a subsidiary in London  that specializes in asset management.

Mr Vassilev has been retired from his CEO position  since 2019 and remains the chairman of the supervisory board of the Rex Consulting Group. He continues to advise the firm's key clients on various strategic investment and financial issues.

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Erika Jupe is a partner in the corporate tax team at Osborne Clarke LLP where she heads the International Tax Group. She advises on a wide range of cross-border corporate tax issues, with a particular emphasis on investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate finance and has a particular interest in the tax issues flowing from digital business.

Erika qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and joined Osborne Clarke in 1997. She became a partner in 1998.

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Vincent has over 7 years of experience in providing tax advisory and compliance services to a broad range of clients, ranging from listed companies and MNCs to private companies. Vincent is a tax manager at Nexia TS, in Singapore, where he is the global mobility tax lead and transfer pricing tax lead, in addition to advising on various issues concerning corporate tax and tax due diligence.

Prior to joining Nexia TS, Vincent was at a big 4 accounting firm in Singapore. He is an Accredited Tax Practitioner (Income Tax) of the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals.

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Prior to joining Chungrui Tax Group, Eva worked with one of the Big 4 CPA firms, Grant Thornton and foreign enterprises.

During her seventeen-year career in taxation areas, Eva has rich experiences in providing PRC tax advisory, compliance services and tax plannings for multinational companies including tax risk controls, transfer pricing, due diligences, cross-border taxation, tax planning for high-net worth individuals and etc. She served both multinational companies and Chinese medium and small-sized companies in China including trading, banking, manufacturing industries and etc.

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David Everett, is the head of the Pensions Research team at LCP. One of his key roles is to analyse and communicate regulatory and professional developments to audiences both within and outside LCP.

David has built up many years of experience in the occupational pensions regulatory field covering a broad spectrum including government policy and legislation, particularly that emanating from the Department for Work and Pensions, the Pensions Regulator, the Pension Protection Fund and other compensation schemes, the Pensions Ombudsman and the Courts and the technical and ethical regulation of actuaries through the Financial Reporting Council and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries respectively.

He also assists the ACA in responding to government consultations.

He's the editor of LCP's weekly Pensions Bulletin and undertakes other technical writing for the firm, as well as contributing to TolleyGuidance Employment taxes for the Pensions module.

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Dr. Patrick Mulcahy, FCA, CTA (Tax and Accounting Lecturer, Dublin City University and Tax Director, Financial Services Group, PwC).

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Cassandra has spent her career specialising in providing tax advisory services to private companies, owner managers and their businesses, advising on all aspects of taxation and their interaction. Cassandra enjoys analysing the ever-changing tax legislation in detail to provide tax efficient solutions that that are commercial and understandable. Cassandra is also a member of the CIOT Owner Managed Business Committee. Cassandra has co-authored Tolley’s Tax Planning For Owner Managed Businesses 2020-21, with her colleagues Craig Simpson and Richard Coombs at Bates Weston Tax Advisory Ltd.

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Nicolas Martins works for a “Big Four” firm, primarily advising on corporate tax matters.

His Master’s Thesis focused on Action XIV of the OECD’s BEPS initiative, and he has since published various other articles on subjects relating to international tax litigation.

Nicolas lives in Brussels and enjoys the gym and classical piano.

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Lynne is an expert in personal taxation with over 15 years' experience. Lynne joined Tolley from BDO, where she worked in the private client team and the national tax training department, having previously worked for Grant Thornton and Arthur Andersen.

Whilst in practice, Lynne handled compliance and planning matters including entrepreneurs' relief planning, capital gains tax deferral, non-domicile planning, estate planning and corporate restructuring for inheritance tax.

As well as being the in-house writer for the Personal Tax module of TolleyGuidance, Lynne has written for Taxation, Tax Adviser and Taxwise I and is a tutor for Tolley Exam Training. She is also a former Chairman of the ATT/CIOT London branch.

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Ximena draws from prior experience in public law and has a successful tax advisory and litigation practice representing clients in Judicial Review, High Court claims and substantive tax appeals in the Tribunals and beyond.

In the span of her 18-year career, she has represented and appeared on behalf of taxpayers in complex Judicial Review proceedings and group appeal litigation for 350+ appellants with tax at stake of several £100m.  She is uniquely familiar with procedure, FTT rules, costs and alternative dispute resolution strategy.

Ximena has published numerous articles, case reports, commentaries and text books on tax legislation and caselaw.

Her clients include a variety of media personalities, HNW individuals, OMBs and multinational corporates.

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Helen McGhee is a solicitor and chartered tax advisor as well as a member of the Society of Tax and Estate Practitioners and a CEDR accredited mediator. Helen is a partner at the law firm Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP, where she specialises in UK and international tax disputes. She advises both individuals and corporates either engaged directly or as a consultant to other professional firms and financial institutions. Helen was recently ranked Band 2 in the Chambers HNW guide and is named as a rising leader by the Private Client Global Elite as well as included in the Top 100 private client lawyers by Citywealth. Helen writes prolifically for numerous tax publications and is an active committee member at the Chartered Institute of Tax and the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

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Andy advises on all aspects of employment law, with particular expertise in advising companies on large scale workforce issues such as changing the terms of their pension arrangements for staff, reorganisations, changes to terms and conditions and TUPE transfers/outsourcing arrangements. He also has substantial experience of Tribunal work and negotiating severance packages with (and for) senior executives, as well as dealing with other contentious issues such as breach of confidentiality, team moves and post-termination restrictions.

In addition, Andy regularly advises on the employment and pensions aspects of corporate transactions, such as sales and purchases of businesses, group restructuring exercises and funding investment projects. He also presents seminars and delivers tailored training sessions to clients, as well as writing for a variety of publications.

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Candela is a Spanish tax manager with Gesdocument, a multi-service tax advisory practice based across Spain. She is a law graduate, with Masters in company law and tax consultancy. She has over eight years of experience in tax advice to both individuals and legal entities. She also manages tax inspection procedures and advises in national and international tax planning.

Candela is a contributor to the ‘Selling a Property Abroad’ chapter in Tolley’s Property Taxation.